Imprecatory Prayer?
Rochester Turning publishes a weekly segment called “Wednesday Wingnut Watch“. This week’s episode involves a guy I wrote about back during the campaign, Pastor Wiley Drake. He’s the guy who famously asked people to pray for rain during Barack Obama’s nomination acceptance speech in Denver. Most people who have an independent thought in their heads would likely agree that the guy is a dick.
He now outdoes himself, calling for his followers to perform imprecatory prayers (a curse, if you will) against his opponents. Including praying for the death of President Barack Obama.
1. It’s astonishing that in 21st century America we have so-called Christian pastors busy going around asking supporters to put the equivalent of a voodoo hex on their opponents.
2. It’s astonishing that in 21st century America we have so-called Christians paying attention to him and doing so.
3. It’s astonishing that in 21st century America we have these same so-called Christian pastors involved even in an infinitesimal, tangential manner in the political landscape.
4. It’s amazing to me that this so-called Christian pastor has a <strike>constituency</strike> congregation, and isn’t instead screaming on a street corner wearing a sandwich board smeared with his own feces.
IMO, those people have giant, unhealthy insecurity levels bordering on psychosis propped up with a giant dose of religion. Kind of like a weird variant of OCD.
It’s amazing in the 21st century people still believe a magic man in the sky even exists, let alone gives a fuck what they do.
Jon – Why are you compelled to mock the faith of others?
Because when people act in stupid, illogical ways and hold back cultural progress while doing so they deserved to be mocked for it.
The fact it’s taboo to mock religion is the only reason it’s hung around so long.
I think the original post is proof positive why faith (or, rather, organized religion) is so eminently mockable.